Lacklustre Quorn slip to third defeat in a row

After three hours of steady, heavy rain in the morning, the teams arrived as the downpour stopped. After an hour and a half of mopping up, a 35 over per side game was decreed and the visitors, on winning the toss, had no hesitation in inserting Quorn.

QUORN fell to their third consecutive defeat on Saturday, with a lacklustre performance as they hosted Queniborough.

After three hours of steady, heavy rain in the morning, the teams arrived as the downpour stopped. After an hour and a half of mopping up, a 35 over per side game was decreed and the visitors, on winning the toss, had no hesitation in inserting Quorn.

Initially, Richard Cooper (22) and Andy Kenneth (34) batted steadily against an unexceptional seam attack. Having put on 72 runs for the opening wicket, Cooper was the first to fall when he mistimed a drive, the wicket falling at exactly the half way mark of the innings. Cooper’s wicket brought 14-year-old Ben Wragg to the crease for his first-team debut.

Wragg’s mature innings anchored Quorn while wickets fell around him, as he was fifth man out for well-made 30. Although Chris Cooper played some good aggressive shots in his 18 ball 22, the called for acceleration at the end of the innings was not forthcoming. M Shakeel Patel was Queniborough’s most successful bowler, taking 4-27 from his nine overs.

Queniborough’s reply started poorly when Zuned Kasu chipped Adam Lee (1-25) to mid-wicket, leaving the visitors 10-1.However, further success was a long time coming as Hashim Laher (44) and Taufik Patel (56) put together a largely untroubled stand of 97, before Laher was pinned LBW by Andy Kenneth (2-52) with a ball that jagged back sharply. Jon Reynolds (1-26), having had Patel spilled on the long on boundary by Tom Errington, induced him to play the shot again and this time Errington made no mistake. Although a little stutter left Queniborough 127-4 after 24 overs, the remaining 33 runs were knocked off comfortably with 3 ½ overs to spare.

This defeat sees Quorn fall to sixth-place in Division Four Central and with holidays and other unavailability biting next week, Quorn will have to steel themselves and up their games if they are not to extend their losing run at Leicester Banks next Saturday.